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If it's so easy, do it yourself then? Who do you think funds the building and maintenance of property?
The people who rent it after its built, duh? Not everyone can buy property because not everyone is sitting on unallocated capital.
i imagine one day when you have " unallocated capital. " this will be a distant embarassing memory for you
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If it's so easy, do it yourself then? Who do you think funds the building and maintenance of property?
>If it's so easy, do it yourself then? A decent apartment here costs the equivalent of 20 times the average income. you need to have roughly 25% of the cost for a mortgage to be granted, according to local regulation, which would be 5 times your yearly salary. Try to save that considering that just renting (while you save) will easily take 50-60% of your income. Even those who can do it will only achieve it after mor…
And there will be places where that will not be true
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Choking can happen anywhere you are; preventing accidents from drowning and bicycling is 100% under your control (just don't swim or ride a bike). Mass shootings don't and aren't.
>preventing accidents from drowning and bicycling is 100% under your control (just don't swim or ride a bike) With a risk profiles like this I'm starting to see why emergency covid measures never end.
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I love living in a walkable city and a tiny-ass apartment (3 people, 75 square meters). When the neighborhood is attractive it becomes part of "your space". I don't need my whole world to be within the confines of these walls.
and this is where things collide with capitalism. Once your neighborhood is a part of "your space", you're much more invested in that neighborhood and its future evolution. However, under the "rules" of a capitalist economy, in which the private ownership of real estate generally trumps most other concerns, you have very little ability to control the future of your neighborhood. If it starts changing in ways you don'…
Capitalism had contractual things like deed restrictions and binding neighborhood covenants to deal with this problem, which were all but eliminated in the name of integration.
Of course we have trouble dictating the character of our neighborhoods- it was the express intent of those laws that we couldn't.
This probably explains the prevalence of bike lanes (I do use them frequently) because its so much easier for polticians to say “I built that!” than it is to say “I prevented abstract concept X!”
Bizarre article. Calling out working class housing built in 1880 seems to ignore why it’s not longer a working class neighborhood - because it’s now in a prime location.
While that's a good point, the article remains spot-on. People would readily pay 1/2 to 3/4 the price of that neighborhood to live in a place that felt similar in terms of the general neighborhood even in a much less prime location. By contrast, the people who choose to live in this particular prime location would not prefer to live in the same location if the neighborhood were razed and replaced by car-dependent sty…
I mean, cities change. Shit gets torn down, neighborhoods that were wealthy go to crap, neighborhoods that were crap become trendy.
The article infers there is one “right” was to design a city and complains that people in the past didn’t know that.
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There are people who actually like the suburbs? It's the worst of all worlds.
Well, I do like to live in my suburban house. At least I like it more than living in apartments in "dense neighbourhood", where I grew up. I have parks, playgrounds, a grocery store, school for my kids, convenience stores, fast food places, a pet store, a booze store, even two cannabis dispensaries in 600m radius. I have a huge tech park with tons of jobs in 10 minutes of cycling. I'm happy here. Why would I need to…
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Any stats about tourists in Houston or Phoenix? I'm pretty sure that international tourism is more of a thing in more "walkable" cities like New York.
I think there are quite a few other factors that could explain the difference in international tourism between Phoenix and NY. LA seems to be doing alright though with ~7.5M foreign visitors a year: https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/sites/default/files/2019-...
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There are people who actually like the suburbs? It's the worst of all worlds.
Well, I do like to live in my suburban house. At least I like it more than living in apartments in "dense neighbourhood", where I grew up. I have parks, playgrounds, a grocery store, school for my kids, convenience stores, fast food places, a pet store, a booze store, even two cannabis dispensaries in 600m radius. I have a huge tech park with tons of jobs in 10 minutes of cycling. I'm happy here. Why would I need to…
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The walkable bit I see, but proper, fully segregated cycle infra is very rare.
Yeah, if you want to ride a bike then you ride on the street and try and stay to the side. Kids can ride on the sidewalks. It works for me because I can walk to my butcher, coffee shop, various restaurants, book store, etc and if I need to do more then I can drive my car. Sometimes we'll bike for fun when going to places not too far away. I only end up driving a couple times a week generally. I think it's a great bal…
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